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PUEBLA 2020: A Well-Spent Week Comes To A Close With A Blessing
This year marked the fifth in the past six that I have joined a devoted and talented team of nearly two dozen men and women who are present and former members of Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) in Sykesville, Md., on a week-long mission to Puebla, Mexico. At the outset, let me be clear that my…
MYTH-BUSTERS: No, The God Of The Old Testament Is Not A Moral Monster
A common objection heard from atheists, agnostics and other skeptics these days is that the God of the Old Testament was immoral because He allegedly endorsed such horrors as forced servitude, genocide and rape. As RZIM’s Brandon Cleaver explained recently in a lengthy analysis of the issue, “slavery in the Bible was vastly different. First,…
PUEBLA 2020: ‘PoPo’ The Volcano Is Quiet Today But God The Creator Is Not
People living in Puebla respectfully call the nearby 17,000 foot-high volcano Popocatepetl “PoPo” and when it erupts, everybody, including folks in Mexico City some 83 miles northeast of here, can hear, feel and smell the explosions. PoPo is not erupting today, though, as you can see from the photo above, its typical grey smoky plume…
PUEBLA 2020: It’s All About Christ, Cranes And Cows On Day Two
Turn on a cable TV reality show about home remodeling, customizing cars or rescuing animals and odds are good there will be an episode that revolves around having to get something done by a deadline. Miss the deadline and bad things will come to pass. It’s all faux drama, of course, using a corny plot…
PUEBLA 2020: Monday Is Mexico’s Constitution Day And WorkDay One At Hananeel
Fireworks are heard pretty much all day and late into the night on Constitution Day in Puebla, Mexico, to commemorate the 1917 Constitution that was adopted on February 5, 1917. The holiday is celebrated the first Monday in February. For the Friendship mission crew, Monday is also the first workday and it is inevitably a…
Sunday Breakfast In Puebla
It’s Puebla Week for 2020, so I and a bunch of fellow believers from Friendship Baptist Church in Sykesville, Maryland, and a bunch of other places from around the country are here for the week to do construction work for Hananeel Baptist and to share the Gospel with the people of this beautiful city. I’ll…
GREAT QUOTES: If Thinking Is Mere Behavior, How Do We ‘Believe’ Anything?
“If mental states are nothing more than behaviors, none of us could actually know what we believe until we have observed our behavior. Yet we are clearly aware of our beliefs, sensations and thoughts even before we behave in a certain way.” — J. Warner Wallace, “God’s Crime Scene.”
Here’s What Football And Sunday’s Super Bowl Teaches Us About The Purpose Of Life
San Francisco’s 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs meet Sunday in the Super Bowl and millions of people around the world will be tuned in to watch what could be one of the most exciting such games ever. Nobody on the playing field, in the grandstands, listening on radio or watching the game on TV…
IMPEACHMENT PRAYERS: Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black’s Wise Appeals To The Almighty
Every day of the Senate impeachment trial has been opened with a prayer offered by Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black. Each of Black’s prayers has included admonitions that are particularly applicable in the current tense atmosphere, as well as in the every day functioning of Congress and the nation. On the opening day, for example,…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who Is Being Promoted On The Hill!
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Katie Earle is the new professional staff member in the office of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican staff. Katie comes over to the House side following her tenure as a national security fellow for Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND). She is a 2019 MA graduate in security studies and…